After a short three-year run, the scripting language behind JavaFX was declared dead today at JavaOne. Starting with JavaFX 2.0, which is due out in 2011 (in 7-10 months), the unique RIA framework will use the Java API in place of the doomed JavaFX Script. Of course, this also means that other JVM languages like Groovy and Scala could be used to write applications with JavaFX, but we’ll have to see how this new system works.

JavaFX 2.0 will also come with an embeddable browser and will itself be embeddable into… wait for it… Swing. On the surface, it looks like they’re essentially turning JavaFX into another set of libraries for RIA. One tweeter called it “swing++.” This will also make JavaFX resemble Apache Pivot in a few more ways.

via java.dzone.com

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